Title: Imminent

Author: Sierra

Note: I really think they're riding the short bus in this -shrugs- I'm just gonna be posting some really short little drabbles here every once in as while ;)

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He will pretend that she isn't there standing between them, once again holding back the imminent brawl.

He will pretend that she is safe at home in her bed.

He will pretend that she is still alive.

He will pretend that her memory isn't the only thing stopping them from killing each other.

In an era of unprecedented peace he stands twenty years following his betrayal in front of, not the boy he had left behind, but a man; taller than he, broad shouldered and eyes as hard as diamonds. This person is someone he never knew existed. This person is someone he never has and never will care to know.

He, unlike his counterpart has not changed since their last encounter.

They stand not together, always apart, not in mourning but in acknowledgment of the empty space between them, of the woman that once balanced and kept them, of the one thing left that they had in common.

They both knew that she was supposed to be there.

But life sucks, and as unfair as it was... She wasn't ever going to stand between them again.

This was the Something that neither of them would ever, could ever, comprehend.

And because they don't know each other anymore, they part at the stone. For there is nothing left to be said.